272 Trout Stream

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Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 62,500.00 USD
Estimated at 125,000.00 - 175,000.00 USD
Trout Stream
Artist: Couse, E.I.Date of Birth: 1866-1936
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 24 1/4 inches
Signed: Signed lower right
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Born in Michigan and trained in Paris, E. I. Couse was artistically drawn both to the romance and realism of rural life. On his return from Europe, Couse reveled in the traditional ways of Native Americans, particularly the Indians of Taos, where he established summer residency in 1902 and moved permanently in 1927. Couse’s paintings sing the songs of contemplation. The intrinsic quietness of Couse’s Indians hints that the artist believed that they lived in harmony with their surroundings and the passage of time. Because of his calendar contracts with the Santa Fe Railroad and other companies, Couse’s images have become part of the collective consciousness, helping to shape our romanticized notion of Native Americans. Consider Trout Stream. The stillness of it. Only the tiny waterfall and the movement of water would separate the painting from the actual scene. Still, you can feel the two young boys, their eyes, peering, trying to push the water away to see the trout, barely fining at the bottom of the pool, looking for all the world like rocks.